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Created by a victim of associational thinking. A grab-bag of my favorite topics: Internet studies, literary theory, social implications of computing, the triumphs and frustrations of a humanities-type who can't leave computers alone.
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Friday, July 14, 2006

A 2002 paper from the Center for Activity Systems Analysis at UC Irvine (and don't ask how I got there!). Though not exactly within my field of expertise, I find the abstract extremely intriguing - particularly this bit: "This paper argues that peer-to-peer communication and local area wireless networks should play a central role in any system to distribute traveler information services. Instead, the National ITS Architecture makes no mention of peer-to-peer information exchange, relegating local area wireless connections to vehicle control." Don't take my word for it, go read Towards Distributed Data Collection and Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing.